For the longest time now, car racing games haven't really been in the spotlight. There used to be a period in video games where these sorts of titles were everything your friend group talked about.
The genre sort of faded alongside the 2000s and their signature underground racing scenes, of which today only fragments remain. But in 2005, and a couple of years before and after it, we had so many good racing titles that I can't even begin to name them all. We had two Need for Speed: Underground games in 2003 and 2004, the masterpiece that was Most Wanted in 2005, as well as Gran Turismo 4. and the first Forza Motorsport that same year.
